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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Conflict
Exposition
Setting
Personification
2. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Falling Meter
Exposition
Figurative Language
Climax
3. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Sonnet
3rd Person (Limited)
Couplet
Style
4. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
Point of View
Dialect
Style
5. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Sestet
Situational Irony
Literal Language
Author's Purpose
6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Quatrain
Tercet
Fiction
Rhyme
7. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Flashback
Fiction
Figurative Language
Elision
8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Climax
Syntax
Elegy
9. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Mood
Nonfiction
Hyperbole
Act
10. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Denotation
Dramatic Irony
Dactyl
Repetition
11. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Convention
Hyperbole
External Conflict
Iamb
12. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Villanelle
Diction
Flashback
Denouement
13. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Subject
Dialect
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
14. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Epiphany
Conceit
Satire
Iamb
15. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Dactyl
Recognition
Aubade
Spondee
16. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Stanza
Connotation
Literal Language
Characterization
17. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Plot
Character
Foot
Metaphor
18. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Onomatopoeia
Allegory
Subplot
19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Free Verse
Sestina
Aphorism
20. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
1st Person
Style
Parallelism
Sestina
21. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Characterization
Narrative Poem
Fiction
Reversal
22. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Epigram
Solioquy
Suspense
Convention
23. The selection of words in a literary work.
Trochee
Rhyme
Diction
Theme
24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Comic Relief
Allusion
Character
Persona
25. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Aubade
Dramatic Irony
Parallelism
3rd Person (Limited)
26. Broken down acts.
Epigram
Scenes
Alliteration
Narrative Poem
27. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Motif
Personification
Enjambment
Symbolism
28. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Spondee
Syntax
Complication
29. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Dialogue
Dactyl
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Solioquy
30. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Figurative Language
Comic Relief
Solioquy
Verbal Irony
31. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Folklore
Rhythm
Structure
32. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Theme
Complication
Figurative Language
Aside
33. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Legend
Trochee
Meter
Villanelle
34. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Audience
Syntax
Tone
Exposition
35. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Reversal
Denotation
Couplet
Parable
36. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Dialogue
3rd Person (Limited)
Foil
Verbal Irony
37. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Epic
Satire
Setting
38. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Situational Irony
Alliteration
Rhyme
Octave
39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Internal Conflict
Conflict
Parable
Nonfiction
40. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Subject
1st Person
Trochee
Rising Action
41. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Plot
Connotation
42. What a story or play is about.
Rising Action
Literal Language
Subject
Caesura
43. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Alliteration
Style
Exposition
Assonance
44. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Allusion
1st Person
Aside
Conceit
45. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Image
Aphorism
Free Verse
Pyrrhic
46. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Persona
Onomatopoeia
Complication
Symbol
47. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Stereotype
Situational Irony
Folklore
Pyrrhic
48. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Narrator
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Author's Purpose
Pyrrhic
49. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Nonfiction
Elegy
Cliche
Analogy
50. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Synecdoche
Complication
Setting
Paradox